Jeanne de Rham

After World War I, de Rham helped to organize the Dugout, an organization that assisted disabled combat veterans earn a livelihood by teaching them new skills and restoring old skills.^[3]

After establishing a home known as J.D.R. Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in the 1930s, where she relocated part-time because of ill health, she began raising "prize beef cattle".^[3] In addition she served as a Republican State Committeewoman in Wyoming for twenty years.^[3]

De Rham bequeathed a portrait of Mrs. Ralph Izard (née Alice De Lancey), by Thomas Gainsborough, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in memory of her father.^[12] Her father had acquired the portrait in c. 1912 from Dr. Robert Watts, the sitter's great-grandson.^[13]

On April 12, 1918, she was married to Lt. Charles de Rham III (1888–1918) at the Long Island Hotel in Riverhead by Chaplain Duncan H. Brown of the 305th Infantry.^[14] Charles, who was then stationed at Camp Upton, was a son of Charles de Rham Jr. and Emily Hone (née Foster) de Rham.^[15] He was a grandson of Charles de Rham and great-grandson of Henry Casimir de Rham, a Swiss merchant and diplomat who was appointed one of the first two Swiss consuls to the U.S. in 1822.^[16] Sadly, they were only married a few months before his death in combat in France during World War I.^[17] At the time of her death, she lived at 36 East 72nd Street.

After a brief illness, de Rham died at New York Hospital on December 24, 1965.^[3]

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